GingisKHAN™ Fab Kit

FabALACTICA (IgdE) and GingisKHAN (Kgp) are both cysteine proteases that digest IgG1 above the hinge to generate intact Fab and Fc fragments. FabALACTICA is specific for human IgG1 and digests at a specific site (…KSCDKT / HTCPPCP…) with overnight incubation without the need for reducing conditions. GingisKHAN is a general protease that with the recommended reaction conditions, 1 hour with light reducing conditions, digests human IgG1 at a specific site (…KSCDK/THTCPPCP…).

No, GingisKHAN is a general protease that with the recommended reaction conditions, 1 hour with light reducing conditions, digests human IgG1 at one specific site (…KSCDK/THTCPPCP…) above the hinge, generating Fab and Fc.

The enzyme is a cysteine protease that can be inhibited by alkylating agents such as iodoacetamide. There are also several other known inhibitors to this enzyme, like KYT-36.

We recommend using the 10x reducing agent provided with GingisKHAN which has an optimized pH to provide full enzymatic activity without affecting the disulphide bridges between the light chain and Fd region of the heavy chain, keeping the Fab intact. If other reducing agent is used there is a risk for non-optimal reaction conditions. It is important to use freshly prepared Reducing Agent (max storage 6h) for guaranteed activity of GinigsKHAN.

No. GingisKHAN is a protease that digests at exposed Lysines with no secondary structure restrictions. At the recommended reaction conditions, GingisKHAN digestion above the hinge has only been confirmed on human IgG1 with the exposed lysine above the hinge, (…KSCDK / THTCPPCP…). No digestion has been confirmed on other subclasses of human IgG except for several digestion sites in human IgG3.